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• Eric Baković & Lev Blumenfeld – A formal typology of process interactions

  Vol. 6 No. 3 (2024)

  Some phonologically significant generalizations result from processes, often formalized as rewrite rules, while others result from interactions among independently motivated processes, often formalized in terms of serial ordering. More ...

• Amber Lubera – Sensitivity to complex onsets in Iron Ossetian

  Vol. 6 No. 2 (2024)

  This paper describes and analyzes the onset-sensitive stress system of Iron Ossetian (Eastern Iranian; Russia, Georgia), which instantiates a rare stress pattern that has been controversially identified in previous literature. More ...

• Bien Dobui, Noam Faust & Jair Apóstol Polanco – Contrast preservation and other segmental effects in the formation of Xochistlahuaca Amuzgo plurals

  Vol. 6 No. 1 (2024)

  In Amuzgo (Eastern Otomanguean), the formation of nominal plurals exhibits many realizations, ranging from the simple addition of a nasal prefix, to additional initial consonant fortition, initial consonant deletion, and sometimes also the replacement of the prefixal nasal by a lateral. More ...

• Hannah Sande & Madeleine Oakley – A typological survey of the phonological behavior of implosives: Implications for feature theories

  Vol. 5 No. 7 (2023)

  This paper presents the first cross-linguistic investigation into the phonological behavior of implosive sounds. In many feature theories, implosives share features with obstruent sounds, plus some implosive-specific laryngeal feature. More ...

• Irina Monich – Interaction of phonation and tone in Nuer

  Vol. 5 No. 6 (2023)

  This article presents a case of allotony based on the phonation of the vowel in Nuer, a Western Nilotic language; the falling tone is found only on modal vowels in this language, while the high level tone is found only on breathy vowels. More ...

• Amalia Skilton – Tone, stress, and their interactions in Cushillococha Ticuna

  Vol. 5 No. 5 (2023)

  Ticuna displays a larger tone inventory – five level tones – than any other Indigenous American language outside Oto-Manguean. Based on recent fieldwork, this article argues that, in addition to these tone properties, the Cushillococha variety of Ticuna also displays stress. More ...
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• Hossep Dolatian – Isomorphism between orthography and underlying forms in the syllabification of the Armenian schwa

  Vol. 5 No. 4 (2023)

  Orthographic representations are often derived from phonological analyses or representations, and can even lead to claims about phonological representations. In Armenian, many strings of orthographic consonants are broken up by schwas in pronunciation. As a grammatical process, this spelling-pronunciation mismatch is sensitive to a host of phonological, morphological, and morphophonological factors. More ...
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• Jennifer Kuo – Evidence for prosodic correspondence in the vowel alternations of Tgdaya Seediq

  Vol. 5 No. 3 (2023)

  This paper brings new evidence for PROSODIC CORRESPONDENCE, where prosodic units (e.g. main-stressed nuclei and prominent syllables) of morphologically related forms are compared. Since prosodic correspondence was formalized in Crosswhite’s (1998) analysis of Chamorro, it has received almost no empirical discussion. More ...

• Samuel Kayode Akinbo – Reduplication, repetition and sound symbolism in Fungwa

  Vol. 5 No. 2 (2023)

  A pattern of reduplication marks the intensity of evaluatives in Fungwa. CV syllables of nominal roots and CV prefixes can be reduplicated, but V syllables cannot. The intensity marker, which also has a CV shape due to an onset condition, can be multiply repeated.  More ...

• Lena Borise – Disentangling word stress and phrasal prosody: A view from Georgian

  Vol. 5 No. 1 (2023)

  This paper investigates the interaction of word stress and phrasal prosody in Georgian by studying the distribution of acoustic cues (duration, intensity, F0) in controlled data. The results show that initial syllables in Georgian words are marked by greater duration than all subsequent syllables, regardless of syllable count and phrasal context. More ...
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• Megan J. Crowhurst, Laura R. Faircloth, Allison L. Wetterlin & Linda R. Wheeldon – “Natural” stress patterns and dependencies between edge alignment and quantity sensitivity

  Vol. 4 No. 6 (2022)

  We conducted an artificial language learning experiment to study learning asymmetries that might reveal latent preferences relating to, and any dependencies between, the edge alignment and quantity sensitivity (QS) parameters in stress patterning. More ...

• Dorota Krajewska, Eneko Zuloaga & Ander Egurtzegi – Sibilant mergers in 18th-century Basque: A quantitative study

  Vol. 4 No. 5 (2022)

  Conservative Basque dialects distinguish apical and laminal alveolar sibilants in the fricative and affricate series. This paper analyses the changes this system was undergoing in the Central Basque variety of San Sebastián in the 18th century More ...
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• Christopher R. Green & Nicola Lampitelli – Conditions on complex exponence: A case study of the Somali subject marker

  Vol. 4 No. 4 (2022)

  This paper offers a novel analysis of the complex patterns of exponence exhibited by the Somali subject marker (MRK). Somali subject marking presents a typologically rare case of subtractive grammatical tone, More ...

• Martine Bruil & Jesse Stewart – Phonetics and phonology of nasality in Ecuadorian Siona

  Vol. 4 No. 3 (2022)

  This study describes the nasal system in Ecuadorian Siona, an endangered Western Tukanoan language spoken in the Ecuadorian province of Sucumbíos, using the Earbuds Method to analyze nasal events acoustically. More ...

• Noa Handelsman & Outi Bat-El – Phonological effects on word order: AB constructions in Hebrew

  Vol. 4 No. 2 (2022)

  The literature on what we call AB constructions, such as odds and ends and copy paste, attributes the fixed word order to both phonological and nonphonological, mostly semantic constraints. However, some researchers attribute a prominent role to phonology More ...

• Florian Lionnet – Tone and downstep in Paicî (Oceanic, New Caledonia)

  Vol. 4 No. 1 (2022)

  In this paper, I propose an updated analysis of the tone system of Paicî, one of the rare tonal Oceanic languages. Building on Jean-Claude Rivierre’s (1974) work, I show that the tonal system of Paicî is best described with three underlying primitives More ...
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• Nicholas Rolle – Lexical tone contrast in Izon as ubiquitous floating tone

  Vol. 3 No. 4 (2021)

  This paper establishes the lexical tone contrasts in the Nigerian language Izon, focusing on evidence for floating tone. The claim here is that all lexical items sponsor floating tone, making it ubiquitous across the lexicon and as common as pre-associated tone. More ...
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• Małgorzata E. Cavar & Steven M. Lulich – Variation in the articulation of Russian stressed vowels and the mechanics of palatalization in consonants

  Vol. 3 No. 3 (2021)

  A 3D/4D ultrasound study of Russian stressed vowels in the context of ‘soft’ (phonetically palatalized or palatal) versus ‘hard’ consonants reveals that vowels in these two contexts differ systematically in terms of the position of the tongue root. More ...
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• Laura J. Downing & Silke Hamann – Why phonetically-motivated constraints do not lead to phonetic determinism: The relevance of aspiration in cueing NC sequences in Tumbuka

  Vol. 3 No. 2 (2021)

  This paper examines the role of phonetic cues to postnasal laryngeal contrasts, language-specific differences in the use of these cues, and the phonetic naturalness of the different cues. More ...

• Laura McPherson & Matthew S. Dryer – The tone system of Poko-Rawo (Skou)

  Vol. 3 No. 1 (2021)

  This paper describes the tone system of Poko-Rawo, a Skou language spoken in northwestern Papua New Guinea. The system displays a number of points of interest to tonal typology, including: a distinction between underlying specified Mid tones and M tones filled in by default More ...
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• Gillian Gallagher – Strident harmony from the perspective of an inductive learner

  Vol. 2 No. 8 (2020)

  In languages with strident harmony, stridents within a particular domain are required to have the same minor place of articulation. Harmony is often required only of stridents within a root or stem morpheme, and doesn’t trigger alternations. More ...

• Hiroto Uchihara & Ambrocio Gutiérrez – Vowels in Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec

  Vol. 2 No. 7 (2020)

  Teotitlán Zapotec has two mid-front vowels, [ε] and [e]. The distribution of these two mid-front vowels is conditioned by the nature of the adjacent consonants and accent and presents challenges to formal analysis. More ...

• William G. Bennett & Aaron Braver – Different speakers, different grammars: Productivity and representation of Xhosa labial palatalization

  Vol. 2 No. 6 (2020)

  While cross-linguistic studies suggest that palatalization is preferentially triggered by high and front vocoids, and that it targets coronals or dorsals, Xhosa has a process of palatalization that is triggered by [w], and that targets only bilabials. More ...

• Juliet Stanton – Aggressive reduplication and dissimilation in Sundanese

  Vol. 2 No. 5 (2020)

  Most cases of long-distance consonant dissimilation can be characterized as local (occurring across a vowel) or unbounded (occurring at all distances). The only known exception is rhotic dissimilation in Sundanese (Cohn 1992; Bennett 2015a,b), which applies in certain non-local contexts only. More ...

• Christian DiCanio et al. – Glottal toggling in Itunyoso Triqui; & Paul de Lacy – Reply to DiCanio et al.

  Vol. 2 No. 4 (2020)

  DiCanio et al.: Itunyoso Triqui (Oto-Manguean: Mexico) possesses several unique morphological derivations, each of which is typified by a toggling of glottal features at the right edge of the root. More ...
  de Lacy: In this Reply, I seek to clarify how the descriptive use of ‘exchange’ relates to and differs from its meaning in phonological theories. I also show that the issue of whether exchanges exist is highly theory-dependent. More ...

• Adam G. McCollum & James Essegbey – Initial prominence and Tutrugbu

  Vol. 2 No. 3 (2020)

  One of the key elements of constraint-based formalisms is their ability to derive a variety of effects from the interaction of general constraints. As for vowel harmony, one persistent question within Optimality Theory is how to encode directionality. More ...

• Pius W. Akumbu, Larry M. Hyman & Roland Kießling – The segmental and tonal structure of verb inflection in Babanki

  Vol. 2 No. 2 (2020)

  In this study we provide a comprehensive phonological and morphological overview of the complex tense-aspect-mood (TAM) system of Babanki, a Grassfields Bantu language of Cameroon. Our emphasis is on the competing inflectional tonal melodies that are assigned to the verb stem. More ...

• Eric W. Campbell – Speaking backwards in Zenzontepec Chatino

  Vol. 2 No. 1 (2020)

  Play languages (also known as language games or ludlings) represent a special type of language use that is well known to shed useful light on linguistic structure. This paper explores a syllable transposition play language in Zenzontepec Chatino that provides evidence for the segmental inventory, syllable structure, More ...

• Timo B. Roettger & Dinah Baer-Henney – Toward a replication culture

  Vol. 1 No. 4 (2019)

  Our understanding of human sound systems is increasingly shaped by experimental studies. What we can learn from a single study, however, is limited. It is of critical importance to evaluate and substantiate existing findings in the literature by directly replicating published studies. More ...

• Natalie DelBusso & William G. Bennett – ABP and ABC

  Vol. 1 No. 3 (2019)

  The same linguistic data can often be analyzed in multiple ways, using different theoretical assumptions. Systematic comparison of the competing analyses requires understanding how the theories give rise to them, and the consequences and predictions implied by each set of assumptions. More ...

• Françoise Rose – Rhythmic syncope and opacity in Mojeño Trinitario

  Vol. 1 No. 2 (2019)

  This paper presents rhythmic syncope in Mojeño Trinitario, an Arawak language spoken in lowland Bolivia. In this language, every vowel that is in a weak prosodic position can syncopate. The syncope pattern of Mojeño Trinitario is remarkable for several reasons. More ...

• Dustin Bowers – Positional vs. sonority-driven stress in Gujarati

  Vol. 1 No. 1 (2019)

  Stress in Gujarati (Indo-Aryan, India and Pakistan) has been alternately claimed to be strictly positional or sensitive to vowel sonority. The latter analyses figure prominently in arguments for scalar markedness constraints. More ...